I am still alive, just been busy lately and apparently needed a break from social media. Images have still been trickling onto the site when I've had time. Today's addition shows Cilacap, Indonesia in 1966 is especially fascinating. A great example of urban growth over the years. (link below)

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Glückwunsch an alle Beteiligten! 🚀🛰Danke SpaceX, Danke UARX, Danke @librespace.bsky.social 👏👏

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The commissioning ended on 23 September, when the European-Chinese Smile mission was declared ready to start revealing how Earth responds to the wind of charged particles from the Sun. Read more about the instruments' status & the challenges the team faced here 👉 www.esa.int/Science_Expl... 🔭 🧪 ☀️

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Smile's X-ray camera was also successfully switched on and has taken its first images. Though the camera itself is working very well, the teams are currently working on reducing some unwanted light that was detected, even if its amount will naturally reduce over the coming weeks.

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The observations were taken during the busy in-space commissioning period. During this time, European and Chinese teams got Smile ready by deploying mechanisms, switching on units, checking communications, and fixing any issues that came up. 🔭 🧪 ☀️

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